Talk:Jump drive

This article was nominated for deletion on September 18, 2019. The result of the discussion was delete and redirect.

update

Five years ago in the AFD, people were saying this was a common name for USB flash drives, but I can't confirm this any more, a Google search often seems to bring up some random board game, too.

All-time monthly page view statistics show that we shed some 4k views/month here, which were probably meant for the hyperspace topic, such as it were.

In the last six months, the identifiable clickstreams for the hatnote were:

clickstream-enwiki-2024-02.tsv:

USB_flash_drive Hyperspace link 36

clickstream-enwiki-2024-03.tsv:

USB_flash_drive Hyperspace link 31

clickstream-enwiki-2024-04.tsv:

USB_flash_drive Hyperspace link 37

clickstream-enwiki-2024-05.tsv:

USB_flash_drive Hyperspace link 39

clickstream-enwiki-2024-06.tsv:

USB_flash_drive Hyperspace link 24

clickstream-enwiki-2024-07.tsv:

USB_flash_drive Hyperspace link 24

These numbers are awfully close to the traffic for the redirect - about 50 a month, and at <50 we're close to the clickstream anonymization threshold so some of the above could be incomplete, too (so it could be even closer to total traffic).

So I disambiguated it over here instead now. Very few readers will be affected in case of a problem, and having it as a clear choice will allow us to at least measure if a primary redirect to USB flash drive was still warranted.

--Joy (talk) 19:30, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Google Books Ngrams don't show "jump drive" to be a particularly common a term, either. --Joy (talk) 19:51, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BTW very similar story at hyperjump. --Joy (talk) 19:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]